by Robin Stevenson

This illustrated nonfiction alphabet book is meant for middle to upper grades. Perfectly appropriate for 6th graders and up. The author follows alphabet-book style by having 1-2 pages per letter covering famous LGBTQ+ people, events and famous locations. Each letter includes lovely stylized images and text giving a blurb about each topic. It’s highly readable, fast paced, and could be read by bouncing around or cover to cover. It also includes additional information in a more condensed form at the back of the book, a 100 year timeline, a glossary, and an index. So much of this book is positive and joyful with lots of smiling people of all diversities, while still dealing with some of the challenging times (R – raids and riots). I like that it defines topics in clear language. The F – Flag page was helpful in showing all of the iterations of flags in the LGBTQ+ community. While it shows kissing & hugging, there is nothing more salacious in the images, again, making it perfectly appropriate for middle school audiences interested in this topic.